Blog: Perspectives

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Saturday, 29th April, marked President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office prompting much analysis on this administration’s performance and policies over the last few months. Following the analysis of Trump’s first 100 days, OutRight decided to summarize our own actions since the new administration assumed power.

OutRight's communications officer, Rashima Kwatra interviewed Joshua Munoz of Our Circle. Our Circle has embarked on a project designed to aid the LGBT community in understanding and minimizing the effects of social inequality in Belize.

Two men aged 20 and 23 were arrested by Sharia religious police in the Aceh region of Indonesia for homosexuality. The two young men’s privacy was breached when vigilante neighbours broke into the apartment, videotaped the men being sexually intimate, violently assaulted them, and called the religious police. If found guilty, the two men will face 100 lashes and public humiliation.

International human rights law (IHRL) creates a set of legal responsibilities for states in their treatment of individuals within their state boundaries. States, however, voluntarily agree to these limitations on their sovereignty in order to uphold these globally held ideals. The main sources of IHRL are:

With trans visibility increasing exponentially across the globe, it has become more and more important for media outlets and journalists to have a foundational understanding of not only the trans issues of the moment, but also of how to speak to a trans person with dignity and respect.

The global fight to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) often relies on the international human rights legal framework. This framework stems from decades of work by governments, civil society, and international organizations to develop a comprehensive legal basis for human rights protections, starting with the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

OutRight is concerned that the 2020 U.S. census will not collect data on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). This was to be a new category for the national demographic study proposed in a March 2017 U.S.

This year, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations invited a known LGBT-hate group, Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), to the official US delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

During the CSW, members of the US Mission to the UN claimed that they did not know the extent of C-Fam's homophobia and transphobia before they were appointed to the US delegation. OutRight and our partners decided this was unacceptable and took action!

On Wednesday, Jamaican LGBT and women’s human rights activist Latoya Nugent was granted bail. She is being charged with three counts of using her “computer for malicious communication under Section 9 (1) of the Cybercrimes Act of 2015.”